If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

Me too." I agree fervently. "Every film should definitely have a message." Which is true. I mean... take the Lord of the Rings movies- they've got loads of messages. Like "Don't lose your ring.

You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next.

I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.

Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been described as froth but there's scope to be witty and ironic about everything in life.

I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go up to him and say "Sushi!" out of the blue. It would be like going up to a top American businessman and saying, "T-bone steak!

Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.